Prospects for meaning / edited by Richard Schantz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schantz, Richard.

Series:

Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meaning (Philosophy).

Semantics (Philosophy).

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (676 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Original papers by leading international authors address the most important problem in the philosophy of language, the question of how to assess the prospects of developing a tenable theory of meaning, given the influential sceptical attacks mounted against the concept of meaning by Willard Van Quine and Saul Kripke and their adherents in particular. Thus the texts attempt to answer the fundamental questions - of whether there are meanings, and, if there are, of what they are and of the form a serious philosophical theory of meaning should take.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

I Meaning and Reference

The Puzzle That Never Was-Referential Mechanics / Almog, Joseph

Reference and Meaning / Alston, William P.

Still Against Direct Reference / Devitt, Michael

On Meaning, Meaning and Meaning / Garrett Millikan, Ruth

On Referents and Reference Fixing / Wettstein, Howard

II Truth-theoretic Semantics

On Some Examples of Chomsky's / Forbes, Graeme

Truth, Meaning and Contextualism / Guttenplan, Samuel

Expression, Truth, Predication, and Context: Two Perspectives / Higginbotham, James

Prospects for a Truth-conditional Account of Standing Meaning / Longworth, Guy

A Very Large Fly in the Ointment: Davidsonian Truth Theory Contextualized / Sainsbury, R. M.

From Truth Conditions to Structured Propositions / Schantz, Richard

Five Flies in the Ointment: Some Challenges for Traditional Semantic Theory / Segal, Gabriel M. A.

III Meaning Skepticism

Against Meaning-Skepticism / Horwich, Paul

Phenomenal Intentionality and Content Determinacy / Horgan, Terry / Graham, George

Semantic Realism and the Argument from Motivational Internalism / Miller, Alexander

IV The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Meaning and Content

Meaning and Content in Cognitive Science / Cummins, Robert / Roth, Martin

Knowledge of Meaning and Epistemic Interdependence / Hornsby, Jennifer

Meaning and Ontology / Lepore, Ernest / Pelletier, Francis Jeffry

Matter and Meaning / McGinn, Colin

Meaning, Communication and Knowledge by Testimony / Patterson, Douglas

Semantics Without Meanings? Sellarsian "Patterned Governed Behavior" and the Space of Meaningfulness / Peregrin, Jaroslav

Externalism and Inexistence in Early Content / Rey, Georges

Propositions, What Are They Good For? / Schiffer, Stephen

Meaning as a Biological and Social Phenomenon / Searle, John R.

Three Kinds of Meanings / Suppes, Patrick

V Formal Semantics

Requirements on a Theory of Sentence and Word Meanings / Hodges, Wilfrid

Quantification and Anaphora in Natural Language / Sandu, Gabriel / Jacot, Justine

Equivalence of Semantic Theories / Zimmermann, Thomas Ede

Notes on Contributors

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110216882

3110216884

OCLC:

811964399